The Electronic Frontier Foundation is one of the latest organisations to fall foul of AASS -- Apple App Store Stupidity -- albeit indirectly. It seems Duane Fields of Exact Magic developed an iPhone application that displays content from the EFF's RSS feed, and Apple rejected it. As the EFF puts it:

Why? Because it claims EFF's content runs afoul of the iTune's App Store's policy against "objectionable" content. Apparently, Apple objects to a blog post that linked to a "Downfall" parody video created by EFF Board Chairman Brad Templeton. The parody casts Hitler in the role of entertainment industry executive, ranting about the failure of DRM and the continued popularity of fair use. The parody includes the fleeting appearance of the f-bomb in a subtitle.

If Apple thinks this makes sense, then it should immediately remove the Safari browser from all its products, because that can be used to view exactly the same YouTube video, a couple of dozen similar Downfall parodies, and no doubt much worse things besides.

Further, Apple should probably remove the software keyboard, the camera, the SMS capabilities and the voice functions from the iPhone as well. Any of these might end up with users encountering rude words and pictures that are not allowed in Apple's Brave New (Censored) World.

As the EFF notes:

This is just the latest example of the failings of Apple's iTunes App Store approval process, which has been revealed to be not just anti-competitive, discriminatory, censorial, and arbitrary, but downright absurd.

(Please see the original paragraph for the links!)

However, I suspect the EFF is delighted it's happened. It's trying to get a DMCA exemption to cover the "jailbreaking" of iPhones, which will mean users can load any apps they like, not just Apple-approved apps. The more patently absurd Apple's control-freakery, the louder the cries for removing it.